Classifying Open-Ended Reports: Factors Affecting the Reliability of Occupation Codes

A source of survey processing error that has received insufficient study to date is the misclassification of open-ended responses. We report on efforts to understand the misclassification of open occupation descriptions in the Current Population Survey (CPS). We analyzed double-coded CPS description...

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Main Authors: Conrad Frederick G., Couper Mick P., Sakshaug Joseph W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of Official Statistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jos-2016-0003